Culture I have been whisked down the emergency stairs of a plush hotel overlooking Wembley Stadium. Semi-darkness and a reverent hush give the fifteenth floor the air of a museum housing a priceless cultural artefact. Which, in a sense, it is.
‘What's up?’ says an impossibly chiselled figure, rising from the void. What is up? ‘You tell me. Something's going on here.
’ Then those infamous sunglasses flip off and the artefact comes to life, with a gentle grin and a twinkle in his eye: Lenny Kravitz, irradiating this rain-lashed corner of north London with benevolent rock divinity. ‘Something’ is indeed going on. We’re speaking ahead of Kravitz’s Pepsi Kick Off Show at the UEFA Champions League Final, beamed live to over 100 million people: his first time at the football, as well his first London show in five years.
The musician, actor, and fashion icon turned 60 last week – days after releasing his twelfth album – and appears more comfortable than ever in his leather trousers and leopard print boots. A live broadcast from a major sporting event seems a high-octane start to a European tour- even after four decades in the spotlight. Naturally, Kravitz is philosophical.
“Every performance is important. No matter what size it is, you're there for the people, and you've got to give everything that you have. But the kickoff show is very exciting,” he concedes.
“When you put sports and music together, people together...
’ Was that why he picked it? “It just.
